In the literature on reasoning on the basis of evidence, two traditions exist: one argument-
based, and one based on narratives. Recently, we have proposed a hybrid perspective in …

Environmental change is subject to discussion among scientists, practitioners, and
policymakers. As increasing threats to both environment and society are on the agenda …

Robustness and its many related concepts (stability, resilience, reliability, sustainability, etc.)
are essential to understanding and maintaining systems of all kinds: engineered systems …

Computational social science, as with all complex adaptive systems sciences, involves a
great amount of uncertainty on several fronts, including intrinsic arbitrariness such as that …

Computational social science, as with all complex adaptive systems sciences, involves a
great amount of uncertainty on several fronts, including intrinsic arbitrariness due to path …

When an ecosystem reaches tipping points for selected indicators, resilience to further
changes in external drivers can decrease, regime shifts can occur that diminish the capacity …

An iterative process of social science theory improvement through computational social
science includes theory, computation, and then readjustment of theory. The key to iterative …

While models of path dependence can explain how organizations fail, the notion of
organizations overcoming lock-in remains ambiguous. Although first means to unlock paths …

The modeling and analysis of large and complex systems is a rich and diverse field of study,
and arguably the modeling and analysis of Systems of Systems (SoS) falls squarely within …

This study provides the first systematic inquiry into the determinants of aid agency structure
and change across the five organizational models used by OECD-DAC donors from 1962 …